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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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I always have to be writing.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.
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My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I'm concerned, love is absolutely everything.
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When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
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Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.
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I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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When you walk out onstage in front of 65,000 people, it can bring you to tears.
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I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.
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I created my MySpace page in eighth grade, because that's how all my friends talked to each other, so I made one, too. Then, all of a sudden, my friends started putting my songs on their profiles, and then their relatives, their friends in different states did.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.